Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780441014033
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Awakening in a clinic with most of his memories missing, Robin goes on the run from unknown enemies out to kill him, volunteering to take part in the Glasshouse, an experimental polity simulating a pre-accelerated culture in which he will be assigned an anonymous identity, but he experiences radical changes that threaten everything. 20,000 first printing.
Author: Brian Alexander
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250085810
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347
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For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land WINNER OF THE OHIOANA BOOK AWARDS AND FINALIST FOR THE 87TH CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS |NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: New York Post • Newsweek • The Week • Bustle • Books by the Banks Book Festival • Bookauthority.com The Wall Street Journal: "A devastating portrait...For anyone wondering why swing-state America voted against the establishment in 2016, Mr. Alexander supplies plenty of answers." Laura Miller, Slate: "This book hunts bigger game.Reads like an odd?and oddly satisfying?fusion of George Packer’s The Unwinding and one of Michael Lewis’ real-life financial thrillers." The New Yorker : "Does a remarkable job." Beth Macy, author of Factory Man: "This book should be required reading for people trying to understand Trumpism, inequality, and the sad state of a needlessly wrecked rural America. I wish I had written it." In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass House, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown 35 years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion. The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world’s largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster’s society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster’s citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon, an African-American leading the nearly all-white town’s biggest private employer, as he tries to rescue the company from the New York private equity firm that hired him. Meanwhile, Alexander goes behind the scenes, entwined with the lives of residents as they wrestle with heroin, politics, high-interest lenders, low wage jobs, technology, and the new demands of American life: people like Brian Gossett, the fourth generation to work at Anchor Hocking; Joe Piccolo, first-time director of the annual music festival who discovers the town relies on him, and it, for salvation; Jason Roach, who police believed may have been Lancaster’s biggest drug dealer; and Eric Brown, a local football hero-turned-cop who comes to realize that he can never arrest Lancaster’s real problems.
Author: Kevin D. Haggerty
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136974504
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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This collection represents the first sustained attempt to grapple with the complex and often paradoxical relationships between surveillance and democracy. Is surveillance a barrier to democratic processes, or might it be a necessary component of democracy? How has the legacy of post 9/11 surveillance developments shaped democratic processes? As surveillance measures are increasingly justified in terms of national security, is there the prospect that a shadow "security state" will emerge? How might new surveillance measures alter the conceptions of citizens and citizenship which are at the heart of democracy? How might new communication and surveillance systems extend (or limit) the prospects for meaningful public activism? Surveillance has become central to human organizational and epistemological endeavours and is a cornerstone of governmental practices in assorted institutional realms. This social transformation towards expanded, intensified and integrated surveillance has produced many consequences. It has also given rise to an increased anxiety about the implications of surveillance for democratic processes; thus raising a series of questions – about what surveillance means, and might mean, for civil liberties, political processes, public discourse, state coercion and public consent – that the leading surveillance scholars gathered here address.
Author: Eve Chase
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525542388
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, “A captivating mystery: beautifully written, with a rich sense of place, a cast of memorable characters, and lots of deep, dark secrets.”—Kate Morton, New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter “Extraordinary…Absolutely her best yet.”—Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Upstairs Three generations. Three daughters. One house of secrets. The truth can shatter everything . . . When the Harrington family discovers an abandoned baby deep in the woods, they decide to keep her a secret and raise her as their own. But within days a body is found in the grounds of their house and their perfect new family implodes. Years later, Sylvie, seeking answers to nagging questions about her life, is drawn into the wild beautiful woods where nothing is quite what it seems. Will she unearth the truth? And dare she reveal it? (Published in the UK as The Glass House) “The Daughters of Foxcote Manor is not really about a murder, or a creepy house, but about families - the ones we're born into, the ones we make and especially the ones we flee.”—The New York Times One of the New York Times "Novels of Suspense and Isolation" One of The Washington Posts' Best New Audiobooks One of Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of Summer One of PopSugar's Best Books of July One of New York Posts Best Books of the Week
Author: Magnus Edmondson
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 1911595695
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In their debut book, photographers India Hobson and Magnus Edmondson take you on a worldwide journey through their favourite botanical spaces. Perfect for garden and design lovers, and armchair travellers of all ages. The Haarkon Greenhouse Tour, a conceptual photoseries project by India and Magnus--the creators of Haarkon, began as a self-initiated adventure in Oxford's botanic garden four years ago. Since then, Magnus and India have visited countless locations in the UK, Europe, America, Asia, and beyond in search of dream glasshouses and greenhouses, capturing dramatic palm houses, tropical hothouses, and private potting sheds along the way. Divided into seven thematic chapters--History, Specimen, Community, Research, Pleasure, Hobbyist and Architecture--the featured spaces in Glasshouse Greenhouse are depicted via a series of evocative photographs that draw out the style, plant collections, and character of each space. Glasshouse Greenhouse fuses together a myriad of cultures and countries under one glass roof.
Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451219947
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school's social scene: somewhere less than zero. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life. But they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood. Watch a Windows Media trailer for this book.
Author: Margaret Morton
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 0271024631
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 151
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An examination of a small community of homeless young people living in an abandoned Manhattan glass factory describes the people and personalities that made up the well-organized commune and the courageous and tragic stories of their lives.
Author: Chinenye Emezie
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1485904870
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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Let me tell you a story. It’s about a war. This war is not the type fought with guns and machetes. It is a family type. A silent war. The type fought in the heart. It began long before I was formed. Udonwa’s family is at war – a war of relationships, played out under the tyranny of a monster dad. Age twelve, Udonwa has a peculiar love of her father, Reverend Leonard Ilechukwu, who favours her but beats his wife and his other children. She sees his good side: after all, he pays the school fees in advance, and tells her that she, named ‘the peaceful child’, is the one most likely to become a doctor in the family. But luck doesn’t last forever. When her newly married eldest sister suddenly takes her from their family compound in Iruama, Nigeria, to live with her in Awka, Udonwa experiences violence first-hand. Later, pieces of a sinister picture emerge that shake her life to the core. No longer the person she thought she was, Udonwa launches into a period of extreme change, and parts of her life spiral into chaos as she finds herself torn between her love for her father and an underlying need to free herself. This vivid family saga is engrossing, deeply unsettling and finally uplifting
Author: Scott Drevnig
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780977787579
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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For decades, artists and photographers have used the Glass House--architect Phillip Johnson's landmark home in New Canaan, Connecticut--as inspiration for works of art. Now, with THE GLASS HOUSE COLORING BOOK, we can all do the same. With 36 black-and-white drawings by David Crotty, an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger, and cover art by Vik Muniz, the 96-page softcover presents Johnson's home in ways that invite creative exploration and reinterpretation. Now owned and operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Glass House is a 49-acre landscape that comprises 14 architecturally diverse structures built between 1949 and 1995. In addition to Johnson's glass-and-steel residence (1949), the coloring book's perforated pages include illustrations of the compound's chain-link Ghost House; the skylit Sculpture Gallery; the stone-walled "doghouse"; and interior furnishings designed by Mies van der Rohe. Conceived by Scott Drevnig, deputy director of the Glass House, the pages of the THE GLASS HOUSE COLORING BOOK provide dozens of opportunities for exploration, experimentation, and delight. For decades, artists and photographers have used the Glass House--architect Phillip Johnson's landmark home in New Canaan, Connecticut--as inspiration for works of art. Now, with THE GLASS HOUSE COLORING BOOK, we can all do the same, and make the Glass House a canvas of our own. With 36 black-and-white drawings by David Crotty, an illuminating introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger, and cover art by Vik Muniz, the sophisticated 96-page softcover presents Johnson's home in ways that invite creative exploration and reinterpretation. As a historic site now owned and operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Glass House is a pastoral 49-acre landscape that comprises 14 architecturally diverse structures built between 1949 and 1995. In addition to Johnson's groundbreaking glass-and-steel residence (1949), the coloring book includes drawings of the compound's chain-link Ghost House; the skylit Sculpture Gallery; the stone-walled "doghouse"; and a collection of architect-designed furniture, including iconic pieces by Mies van der Rohe. Conceived by Scott Drevnig, deputy director of the Glass House, THE GLASS HOUSE COLORING BOOK--like the compound itself--serves as a canvas for exploration, experimentation, and delight.
Author: Shirley Marr
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1760147893
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
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Winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year - Younger Readers 2022 Meixing Lim and her family have arrived at the New House in the New Land. Everything is vast and unknown to Meixing – including the house she names Big Scary. She is embarrassed by her second-hand shoes, has trouble understanding the language at school, and is finding it hard to make friends. Meixing’s only solace is a glasshouse in the garden, which inexplicably holds the sun and the moon and the secrets of her memory and imagination. When her fragile universe is rocked by tragedy, it will take all of Meixing’s bravery to find her place of belonging in this new world. 'Heart-twisting and hopeful, bursting with big feelings and gentle magic. This is a special book from a powerful, compassionate new voice in children’s literature, destined to be read and loved for generations and held close in many hearts (including mine).' – Jessica Townsend, New York Times bestselling author of the Nevermoor series
